Chuck Nicholson

FMMO modernization: What changes will go into effect in June 2025?

There are multiple changes to the pricing formulas, including changes to make allowances, Class I differentials, milk composition factors, the Class I mover, removing barrel cheese prices from the Class III pricing formulas and provisions for extended shelf life milk.

May 15, 2025

Chuck Nicholson

In November 2024, the USDA released their final decision detailing changes to milk pricing under Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO), most of which goes into effect in June 2025. There are multiple changes to the pricing formulas, including changes to make allowances, Class I differentials, milk composition factors, the Class I mover, removing barrel cheese prices from the Class III pricing formulas and provisions for extended shelf-life milk.

Characteristics of dairy farms with consistently lower costs of production per hundredweight

Lower labor and purchased feed costs per hundredweight are two commonalities between dairies with consistently lower costs of production than their peers.

July 24, 2023

Chuck Nicholson

A project recently funded by the University of Wisconsin’s Dairy Innovation Hub set out to explore patterns of costs of production per hundredweight among Wisconsin dairies, and in particular to explore how well the farms do at managing the costs of production over time given the never-ending challenges.

How does Pennsylvania’s dairy industry compare to Michigan, New York and Wisconsin?

August 16, 2018

Chuck Nicholson

Editor’s Note: This column is submitted by Chuck Nicholson, an adjunct associate professor in the college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell University and a former clinical associate professor of supply chain management at Penn State University. Nicholson is one of three economists who contributed to the 2017 “Study to Support Growth and Competitiveness of the Pennsylvania Dairy Industry,” commissioned by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Center for Dairy Excellence.

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